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1. 2. On the 31st 3. Number of 4. !ay, 1884. Sheep and Cattle Districts in Counties. Number of Owners owning under O ■ O "o Total Number of no On March 31, 1885. Name and Address op Opticer, and Appointments held by him. o 8 8 O o o Q O 5 o o o o o o o o" CM .B o ■ Owners of Sheep. Sheep. Otago Sheep Disteict — Port Chalmers Subdivision (area 25,000 acres) — Peninsula Dunedin Subdivision (area 1,368,000 acres) — Taieri ... Bruce ... Waihemo Waikouaiti Oamaru Subdivision (area 1,570,000 acres) — Waitaki Dunstan Sicbdivision (area 5,009,000 acres) — Vincent Maniototo Lake ... Tapanui Subdivision (area 1,282,000 acres) — Tuapeka 9 66 140 27 14 2 14 24 10 3 2 11 18 9 4 5 6 8 6 5 4 4 1 1 2 3 1 2 1 13 108 194 57 30 4,837 251,710 142,761 136,673 84,805 Johnson, B. H., Dunedin, Chief Sheep Inspector, Cattle Inspector, Begistrar of Brands. Miles, T. J., Palmerston, Sheep Inspector, Deputy Cattle Inspector. 86 29 18 13 8 9 11 174 656,398 Fullarton, B., Oamaru, Sheep Inspector, Deputy Cattle Inspector, Begistrar of Brands. Shaw, C, Clyde, Sheep Inspector. Bouchier, B., Naseby, Sheep Inspector. Miller, W., Queenstoivn, Sheep Inspector, Deputy Cattle Inspector, Begistrar of Brands. Hickson, F. E., Tapanui, Sheep Inspector, Deputy Cattle Inspector, Begistrar of Brands, in charge. Mackay, T. T. W., Balclutha, Sheep Inspector, Deputy Cattle Inspector. 36 60 25 5 9 1 2 8 4 2 4 5 1 2 7 3 6 2 8 7 2 57 96 46 449,561 361,930 161,033 115 26 15 5 3 4 4 '172 305,991 Clutha... Otago Cattle District —Comprising the Counties of Waitaki, Waikouaiti, Maniototo, Vincent, Peninsula, Taieri, Bruce, Clutha, and Tuapeka. Cattle Board :— Mathew Holmes, Chairman, B. Charteris, J. Boberts, J. Shand, and J. Smith. Southland Subdivision (area 4,785,000 acres) — Southland 179 20 5 6 7 5 2 224 252,069 Wallace Southland Cattle District — Comprising the Counties of Southland, Wallace, Lake, Fiord, and Stewart Island. Cattle Board :— T. Brydon, Chairman, J. S. Slianks, J. B. Sutton, J. Holmes, and J. Shand. 318 80 63 16 32 9 20 9 14 7 10 9 5 2 462 132 595,888 299,769 Macdonald, A. A., Gore, Sheep Inspector, Deputy Cattle Inspector, in charge. Anderson, C., Invercargill, Sheep Inspector, Deputy Cattle Inspector, Begistrar of Brands. Douglass, A., Invercargill, Sheep Inspector.